Hopback Brewery Summer Lightning Golden Ale 500ml glass bottle (Pack of 24)

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Success continued in 1996 with a win at the Brewing Industry International Awards for the session beer G.F.B. (Gilbert’s First Brew), claiming Gold Medal both in its class and the overall Championship, beating 232 other cask beers!

There's a recipe in here, I have this book and it's a very good start on the road to real all grain home brewing. The recipes are simple, as are the processes. Like any hobby, you can make it as complicated as you feel. I try to keep it simple and that works for me. I started off all grain over 12 years ago with a simple bit of kit similar to this. .. electric-digital-mashing-bin-boiler-32-litre-p-1993 This lable is marked 'Summer Lightning - Golden Ale. 5.0%'. The front lable is in the shape of a shield without the rather cheesy photo of a lightning bolt, there's a more 'trad' logo of a man's head instead.

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Because we use pellets in our beer kit you will require a for the pellets if you have something else that can handle pellets then no need for the bag. Whilst they will never attract the same sort of attention as the bold and brash American hops that are so popular now, some drinkers are of the opinion that hoppy beer has to taste of grapefruit or citrus. What East Goldings add as an aroma hop if used in quantity is something fantastic in my view, you may just have to learn what it is for yourself. Here’s a recipe to help you discover it. Hops are my favourite flowers. Capable of turning a brew from bland to sublime, they give beer its intoxicating aromas – everything from fresh and floral through citrus and tropical to herbal and spicy.

Hops grown in the Pacific Northwest of America have strong citrus, stone fruit, melon and piney qualities. With similar fruitiness, the hops of New Zealand and Australia come with more of a tropical lilt. In Germany and the Czech Republic, the classic hops are herbal, floral and grassy, with a bitter citrus depth. In Britain, traditional hops evoke an English garden, with flowers and leaves, stone fruit and berries, wood and spice. Look out, too, for new British varieties such as jester, harlequin, olicana and godiva, which have tropical aromas of passion fruit, pineapple, peach and lime.

This isn’t intended to be a Summer Lightning clone recipe, it’s definitely inspired by it. A crisp, light summer beer that showcases large doses of East Kent Goldings but rather more punchy in the hopping schedule. O- Well balanced, very sessionable. Indeed the clean and dry profile would make this a good beer for a refreshing summer's evening. Poured clear as recommended on the label, and at a slightly cooler temperature than usual for a British ale, Summer Lightning comes out pale golden with a warm orange glow, a very lively bead, and a thin bubbly white head that eventually subsides to lace. The aroma of perfumed hops is forward but not overpowering, with faint orange-like traces and a distant earthy and minerally scent. This is a All grain mashing kit in the style of Summer Lightning with a little more hops and a little more malt which will give a gold coloured beer with a nice fresh and hoppy aroma with with a strong bitter taste using Golding and Challenger Pellets.

We celebrated our tenth anniversary with a party for over 400 shareholders and customers, using the event to launch the adventurous Crop Circle, brewed to a complex recipe including malted barley, wheat and maize along with a selection of English and continental hop varieties. Mashing is a simple infusion mash: 90 minutes at 146 degrees F, a little on the low side to maximize fermentability; mash out at 175 degrees F, then sparge. Boil is an hour, with three hop additions. M- It looks pretty anoemic but it has more flavour than expected. It tastes pretty clean and light for 5.0%.

Summer Lightning owes a lot to the choice of hops, East Kent Golding. This is a beer that relies on the simplest of recipes, just pale malt and Golding hops. All of my earliest attempts at home brewing used East Kent Goldings as the primary aroma hop. After a few batches I began to love the aroma brought about by adding heavy amounts at the end of the boil. Summer Lightning Inspired Recipe Either recipe can be fermented with your favorite ale yeast, although a hop-accentuating strain, such as the one originating from Young's, might be just the thing.